Where is the effect of frequency in word production? Insights from aphasic picture-naming errors

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 463-492

  Kittredge, Audrey K ^a   Dell, Gary S ^a   Verkuilen, Jay ^a   Schwartz, Myrna F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MOSS REHABILITATION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Aphasia; Hierarchical multinomial logistic regression; Lexical frequency; Word production

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APHASIA; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 49749112414     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701674851     Document Type: Article

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